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A/N: Hey all! I've been toying with this story for a while. Its been biting my brain and I needed to write it so bad!

Title: Protected

Summary: Ginny is abused by her boyfriend. One time he knocks her around a bit too much. She ends up in the hospital. The Ministry puts her into the Wizard Protection Services. The person they send to protect her is her family's archenemy- Draco Malfoy. Will love bloom for this unlikely pair?

"You will not talk to the Longbottom git again! Do you understand me?" Cooper hissed, raising his fist to her face. Tears streaked Ginny's smooth ivory cheeks. "Do you?" He jeered putting his face close to hers. She could smell the reek of alcohol on his breath.. Ginny bit her lip so hard that blood raised to the surface. The sharp metallic taste of blood filled her mouth. She nodded. "Say it. Say it!" Ginny turned her head away. "You bitch!" Cooper slapped her. She let out a small scream. "Shut up!" He yelled. Ginny let out a soft sob.

"I don't know why I keep you around, you bitch. You're ugly and a prude. Not to mention fat as a cow." Tears stung Ginny's eyes as Cooper went on in his list of things wrong with her. This went on for about five more minutes until he lost interest in making her feel like something he scraped off the bottom of his shoe. He stormed into the bathroom but not before he punched her hard in the nose so that blood began to flow, once he got to the bathroom she could hear him vomiting.

She stood over the sink. Ginny was freely sobbing now. Her tears mixed with her blood and fell like rain into the basin. She could still hear Cooper getting sick in the bathroom. She then heard the toilet flush and saw him shuffle to their bedroom. Fear coursed through her tiny body like an electric current.

She stayed in the kitchen rooted in fear that he would feel the need to beat her again. Ginny opted to sleep on the couch on the couch that night. She'd done that a lot lately. She laid on the couch and recalled every beating he gave her. She felt every raw blast as if thy had hit her that second.

The first time he beat her had been almost six months prior to that day. She'd gone out with her friend Kara Flinch-Fletchy and ended up having drinks with her and Kara's cousin, Justin. Cooper had been furious, even when Ginny told him over and over that Justin was gay. Cooper then slapped her and pulled out his wand and gave her a good whack-around. Ginny had felt scared to death but the next morning Cooper gave her a big hug and told her he would never, ever do that again. He had 'realized' he had no reason to be so jealous. He had 'trust' in Ginny.

Soon he began to hurt her more frequently. Before this he had been respectful of her 'abstinence until marriage' rule but now he used beatings for leverage for sex.

Ginny wasn't an idiot though. She knew the smartest thing would've been to break it off with Cooper the millisecond he raised his hand to her but the whole Weasley clan plus Hermione and Harry loved Cooper. Ginny could even swear her mother loved Cooper more than she loved Ginny.

Harry, Ron and Hermione even set Ginny up with Cooper. They had met him at a World Wide Young Quidditch Players Association meet back in her 6th year. Thy thought he was the nicest guy and immediately set them up together. She knew they would deny any wrongdoing of Cooper, as would anyone else in the Weasley family.

She closed her eyes tightly and tried to wish herself away from this situation. But whenever she closed her eyes she's see Cooper. It made her sick. Not that Cooper wasn't attractive. In fact he was extremely handsome. He had black hair, olive skin and chiseled features. His eyes were deep midnight blue that in the beginning had reflect love and passion to Ginny but now just hatred and disrespect. He was most definitely leading man material but in the movie of Ginny's life he quickly became the villain.

Ginny was not sure how she fell asleep last night. Even if it was a restless and uneasy sleep. Whenever she'd drift off she's feel the intense pain of each beating and shoot awake. If that wasn't enough she finally awoke to see Cooper's snarling face above her.

"Where the hell is my breakfast, you useless bitch?" He snarled. Ginny cringed his breath was rancid- a mix of alcohol and vomit. "What are you waiting for? Go make my breakfast!"

"Okay." She muttered. She was all out of sorts. She wasn't paying attention as she cooked at all. She burnt the toast slightly and the bacon was charred and Cooper was livid.

"You stupid, stupid, bitch! Look what you did? Am I supposed to eat this crap?" He sputtered. Ginny sniffled. "I've had it! You are so damn stupid!" Cooper grabbed the first thing in sight- Ginny's thick-bottomed frying pan (which had been a gift from Percy) and raised it in the air. The last thing Ginny remember was the loud CRACK as it bashed against her fragile skull.

It must had been hours later when Ginny awoke to forceful pain surging in and out of her body. She needed to get to a hospital. She tried to crawl to the phone but the pain was unbearable. Every movement felt like a thousand knives plunging into her flesh. She feebly withdrew her wand from her pocket and croaked, "Accio, telephone." A small cordless telephone zoomed into her blood-caked hand. She weakly dialed 9-1-1 (A/N: Do they have that in England? I don't know…) and an operator answered.

"Hello, Emergency help line pleas state you r emergency." The operator said.

"Help…" Ginny muttered.

"What is your emergency?"

"My- my boyfriend… beat… me." She choked.

"With what?" The operator asked.

"F-f-frying pan." She stammered.

"State where you are. We'll send an ambulance and a police car."

"42 West Avenue, Upper London Flat 3C." She tacked off. The next hour was a blur. She barely remembered the police and paramedics showing up and only remembered waking up it a white hospital room a few hours later. "W-what? Where am I?" She asked.

"Good! Your awake!" A small man with white hair and wearing green robes said.

"W-who?" Was all Ginny could get out.

"I am Herald Berge and I am the head of the Wizard Protections Services. I am here to help you. You see your boyfriend, Cooper Govern, is a deatheater." He said. Ginny sucked in her breath sharply.

"What? How do you know?" She asked.

"Sources." He said simply. "The WPS would like you to join our program. You see we have reason to believe Mr. Govern will come after you again. If you join you will surely be protected. We would give you a new identity and life. We would also give you a protector. But you would have to end all contact with those you love. Are you still interested?" He asked.

"Yes. I can't stand being beaten. I'll do anything, anything so he won't beat me anymore." Ginny said tiredly.

Two days later Ginny was taken to the WPS head quarters. She met with Herald and they chose her new identity, 23-year-old Elise O'Neill. After that was finished they made some small alterations to her appearance. They turned her eyes blue and gave her straight chestnut hair. They also told her she would be moving to New York and living with her protector and two other muggles, Parker Martin and Charlotte Beck. She was also gravely warned that if she ever admitted to her past and who she really was she would be in grave danger.

"But, Drakey! Why do you have to go?" A tall, curvaceous blond whined, she was spread across his bed leisurely watching Draco pack.

"I have to go it is my job." Draco said reasonably.

"Work, work, work. It's all you ever talk about. Really, I mean, you'd think you were the Minister of Magic or something." She said offhandedly.

"Well I have nothing else to talk about so I'm quite sorry if I bore you, Sarah-" He said.

"Tara." She corrected sulkily.

"Right then. I must be going!" He said, slamming his suitcase shut and leaving Tara all alone.

"Hello, Evelyn." Draco said as he entered the WPS had quarters.

"Hello Draco." The elderly woman responded.

"Herald told me to come by. He said I have a new assignment." Draco said, going over to the coffee counter to get something to drink.

"You do. A girl's boyfriend knocked her around, he is also a deatheater." She said, reading from a file.

"Doesn't Herald think I'm a bit overqualified for jobs like this?" He asked.

"You don't have seniority yet, Draco, just hold out a little longer." Evelyn said comfortingly. Draco nodded.

"What was the girl's name?" He asked, mixing his coffee.

"Umm… Virginia- Virginia Weasley." Evelyn said, Draco spat his coffee back into his mug.

"Weasley????" He yelped.

A/N: All right…. Please review for it if you want more!

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